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BURIAL In the final chapters of Bereshit we learn of the deaths of Yaakov and of Yosef, and of their insistence on being buried in Eretz Yisrael. (Bereshit 49:29 – 50:26.)...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

Part One: Four stages of Redemption Part Two: To Forgive and Forget Part Three: Messengers for Mitzvot Part One: In the final hours of his corporeal existence, Yaakov Avinu gathers together...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

Part One: The day after Part Two: Parshat Va’yey’gash 5765 Part I: The Day After Devarim 28:10 וראו כל עמי הארץ כי שם ה’ נקרא עליך ויראו ממך “And all the...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

The Talmud rules that the ideal way of fulfilling the mitzva of Chanukah lights is by lighting them at the entrance to the house, so that they are clearly visible to...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

BS”D Parshat Vayeshev and First Shabbat of Chanuka 5767 Notwithstanding the differences of time and substance which exist between the episode of Yosef in the parsha and the miracles of Chanukah,...